2026 Lee-Lueng Fu: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	64	2352	2246	942	873	173	13341

Overview

Lee-Lueng Fu is affiliated with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the United States, with a research focus primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their scholarly contributions cover a range of topics related to oceanographic and atmospheric processes, ocean waves and remote sensing, marine and coastal ecosystems, geophysics and gravity measurements, climate variability and models, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and flood risk assessment and management.

Frequent collaborators include Matthew Archer, Jinbo Wang, J. Thomas Farrar, Zhijin Li, and Tamlin M. Pavelsky, with multiple coauthored publications across various venues.

Lee-Lueng Fu has published extensively in several scientific journals. The most common publication venues include:

Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
Geophysical Research Letters
Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Surveys in Geophysics

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Lee-Lueng Fu are:

The Surface Water and Ocean Topography Mission: A Breakthrough in Radar Remote Sensing of the Ocean and Land Surface Water (2024), Geophysical Research Letters
Patterns and Dynamics of SST Fronts in the California Current System (2020), Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
Ocean Circulation from Space (2023), Surveys in Geophysics
Increasing the Space-Time Resolution of Mapped Sea Surface Height From Altimetry (2020), Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
On the Development of SWOT In Situ Calibration/Validation for Short-Wavelength Ocean Topography (2022), Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Best Publications

TOPEX/POSEIDON mission overview

Lee-Lueng Fu;Edward J. Christensen;Charles A. Yamarone;Michel Lefebvre

990
Citations
Satellite altimetry and earth sciences : a handbook of techniques and applications

Lee-Lueng Fu;Anny Cazenave

918
Citations
Global Observations of Fine-Scale Ocean Surface Topography With the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission

Rosemary Morrow;Lee-Lueng Fu;Fabrice Ardhuin;Mounir Benkiran

543
Citations
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography Mission: Observing Terrestrial Surface Water and Oceanic Submesoscale Eddies

Michael Durand;Lee-Lueng Fu;Dennis P Lettenmaier;Douglas E Alsdorf

401
Citations
Chapter 1 Satellite Altimetry

Dudley B. Chelton;John C. Ries;Bruce J. Haines;Lee-Lueng Fu

362
Citations
Eddy dynamics from satellite altimetry

Lee-Lueng Fu;Dudley B. Chelton;Pierre Yves Le Traon;Rosemary Morrow

349
Citations
Observations and models of inertial waves in the deep ocean

Lee-Lueng Fu

299
Citations
On the Transition from Profile Altimeter to Swath Altimeter for Observing Global Ocean Surface Topography

Lee-Lueng Fu;Clement Ubelmann

281
Citations
Effects of the Indonesian Throughflow on the Pacific and Indian Oceans

Tong Lee;Ichiro Fukumori;Dimitris Menemenlis;Zhangfan Xing

266
Citations
Sea surface height variations in the South China Sea from satellite altimetry

Ping-Tung Shaw;Shenn-Yu Chao;Lee-Lueng Fu

240
Citations
Seasonality in Transition Scale from Balanced to Unbalanced Motions in the World Ocean

Bo Qiu;Shuiming Chen;Patrice Klein;Jinbo Wang

224
Citations
Partitioning Ocean Motions Into Balanced Motions and Internal Gravity Waves: A Modeling Study in Anticipation of Future Space Missions

Hector S. Torres;Patrice Klein;Patrice Klein;Dimitris Menemenlis;Bo Qiu

211
Citations
Nature of global large‐scale sea level variability in relation to atmospheric forcing: A modeling study

Ichiro Fukumori;Ramanujam Raghunath;Lee‐Lueng Fu

210
Citations
Observing Oceanic Submesoscale Processes From Space

Lee-Lueng Fu;Raffaele Ferrari

204
Citations
Global Ocean Circulation from Satellite Altimetry and High-Resolution Computer Simulation

Lee-Lueng Fu;Richard D. Smith

197
Citations
Satellite Altimetry Measurements of Sea Level in the Coastal Zone

Stefano Vignudelli;Florence Birol;Jérôme Benveniste;Lee-Lueng Fu

192
Citations
Eddy-induced meridional heat transport in the ocean

Denis L. Volkov;Tong Lee;Lee-Lueng Fu

188
Citations
The Effects of Altimeter Instrument Noise on the Estimation of the Wavenumber Spectrum of Sea Surface Height

Yongsheng Xu;Lee-Lueng Fu

178
Citations
The Challenge of Using Future SWOT Data for Oceanic Field Reconstruction

Lucile Gaultier;Clément Ubelmann;Lee-Lueng Fu

177
Citations
Internal waves in the Gulf of California: Observations from a spaceborne radar

Lee-Lueng Fu;Benjamin Holt

172
Citations
The OSTM/Jason-2 Mission

Juliette Lambin;Rosemary Morrow;Lee-Lueng Fu;Josh K. Willis

172
Citations
The General Circulation and Meridional Heat Transport of the Subtropical South Atlantic Determined by Inverse Methods

Lee-Lueng Fu

166
Citations
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission

Lee-Lueng Fu

21
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Bo Qiu University of Hawaii at Manoa

Dimitris Menemenlis California Institute of Technology

Rosemary Morrow Paul Sabatier University

Ernesto Rodriguez Jet Propulsion Lab

Tong Lee California Institute of Technology

Ichiro Fukumori California Institute of Technology

Dudley B. Chelton Oregon State University

Anny Cazenave Centre National D'Etudes Spatiales

Chris W. Hughes University of Liverpool

Douglas Alsdorf The Ohio State University

External Links

Personal website of Lee-Lueng Fu

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